grá

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See also: Gra, gra, grå, and grã

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Irish grá.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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grá (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland) Love, affection.
    • 2023 August 5, Lauren Murphy, quoting Graham Sweeney, “Sounds of Achill”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 11:
      He admits that, as a project, “it's a bit niche, but I think anybody who's been here develops a massive grá for Achill. []

Anagrams

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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See grár.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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grá

  1. feminine nominative singular positive degree of grár

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish grád, from Proto-Celtic *gʷrātus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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grá m (genitive singular as substantive grá, genitive as verbal noun gráite)

  1. love
    grá agam ort.I love you.
  2. beloved person
    Tá mo ghrá caillte.My beloved is gone.
  3. (endearing) love
    Cur glaoch orm, a ghrá.Call me, my love.
  4. charity, beneficence
  5. verbal noun of gráigh

Declension

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As substantive
As verbal noun

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: grá
  • Fingallian: agra
  • Scots: gra

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
grá ghrá ngrá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 57
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 147, page 58

Further reading

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Old Norse

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Adjective

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grá

  1. inflection of grár:
    1. positive degree strong feminine nominative/accusative singular
    2. positive degree strong neuter dative singular
    3. positive degree strong masculine accusative plural
    4. positive degree strong neuter nominative/accusative plural
    5. positive degree weak masculine oblique singular
    6. positive degree weak feminine/neuter singular
    7. positive degree weak nominative/accusative/genitive plural